IntroductionNancy Perloff, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections, Getty Research Institute

9:15–Noon SEEING, READING, AND HEARING THE LANGUAGE OF THE BOOK

The Futurist Book as Uneasy Flâneur: Walking, Seeing, and Feeling the Modern CityMark D. Steinberg, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Editor of Slavic Review

Freeing Russian Verse: Poetry and the Book as Such from Futurism to Neo-FuturismBrian M. Reed, Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington

The Russian Avant-Garde Book as an Ideological Object: From Zaum' to PhotomontageNina Gurianova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Northwestern University

Print/Type/Rhetoric: Values of Production in Russian Avant-Garde BooksJohanna Drucker, Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, University of California, Los Angeles

Framing Russian (and Ukrainian) Futurist Books: Historical Place and HistoriographyEdward Kasinec, Curator of Slavic and East European Collections, New York Public Library; presentation coauthored with Robert H. Davis Jr., Librarian for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Columbia University (not present)

From Grids to Games: Cultures of Copying in the Decorative Art of Natalia GoncharovaJane A. Sharp, Associate Professor and Research Curator, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University

Discussion
Moderated by John Tain, Assistant Curator, Getty Research Institute